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Riverside
Hello Everyone,
I've read lots and lots of the advice and posts here, there are some amazing guides and so much effort has been put in by many posters.
Thanks everyone, I joined up after reading lots because I just cant get "THE" answer to my tiling job.
I am trying to help my wifes elderly uncle, He's getting on and his bathroom needs as spruce up and a shower installed so he wont have to climb into the bath. This job is free gratis by the way just incase anyone thinks I'm trying to make money of an elderly gent.
The bathroom is half tiled on the walls with butt jointed 6"x6" square white tiles but the rough painted plaster on the wall above them juts out and over the level of the top tile not much just 10mm. Lots of these tiles are loose and cracked etc.
So my plan for his bathroom is to remove all old tiles and then install new wc pan, basin and shower pan & enclosure. Tile half walls around and full walls in enclosure.
So my issues are:
I will cutting a channel in a block on edge wall to carry the water pipe and electric cable for the shower, I will set this out so that it is in the centre of a tile when I'm finished but how to close of the channel I have created?
Do I render it? I cant really wait three weeks for it to dry out.
Do I use plastering mesh and polyfilla?
Do I use a strip of marine ply well screwed into block?
Where this lip of plasterwork is over the half tiled area it will leave me with a big step in the area of the walls I want to tile all the wayto the ceiling behind the shower. How to deal with this? I cant really render it as I dont have three weeks to let it dry?
The old tiles on this area are in good nick, If I tiled tile over tile in the shower area I wouldnt have the lip to deal with?
Do I remove the tiles and fit marine ply of the same thickness as the old tiles and then tile over?
Do I use some sort of tile backer board on the lower area?
Any thoughts?
I've read lots and lots of the advice and posts here, there are some amazing guides and so much effort has been put in by many posters.
Thanks everyone, I joined up after reading lots because I just cant get "THE" answer to my tiling job.
I am trying to help my wifes elderly uncle, He's getting on and his bathroom needs as spruce up and a shower installed so he wont have to climb into the bath. This job is free gratis by the way just incase anyone thinks I'm trying to make money of an elderly gent.
The bathroom is half tiled on the walls with butt jointed 6"x6" square white tiles but the rough painted plaster on the wall above them juts out and over the level of the top tile not much just 10mm. Lots of these tiles are loose and cracked etc.
So my plan for his bathroom is to remove all old tiles and then install new wc pan, basin and shower pan & enclosure. Tile half walls around and full walls in enclosure.
So my issues are:
I will cutting a channel in a block on edge wall to carry the water pipe and electric cable for the shower, I will set this out so that it is in the centre of a tile when I'm finished but how to close of the channel I have created?
Do I render it? I cant really wait three weeks for it to dry out.
Do I use plastering mesh and polyfilla?
Do I use a strip of marine ply well screwed into block?
Where this lip of plasterwork is over the half tiled area it will leave me with a big step in the area of the walls I want to tile all the wayto the ceiling behind the shower. How to deal with this? I cant really render it as I dont have three weeks to let it dry?
The old tiles on this area are in good nick, If I tiled tile over tile in the shower area I wouldnt have the lip to deal with?
Do I remove the tiles and fit marine ply of the same thickness as the old tiles and then tile over?
Do I use some sort of tile backer board on the lower area?
Any thoughts?